They stole something for you. For decades, they stole it. That thing they stole? Your entire culture. For all of human history, works created in living memory entered the public domain every year. 40 years ago, that stopped.
@pluralistic
Necropolitics: the genocide in Gaza is far from the first mass killing that the US has equipped, funded, or perpetrated. The US was founded, expanded and sustained by its involvement in ethnic cleansing, slavery, Holocaust, and genocides.
https://monthlyreview.org/product/endless-holocausts/
“Birzeit University calls upon the international academic community, unions, and students to fulfill their intellectual and academic duty of seeking truth, maintaining a critical distance from state-sponsored propaganda, and to hold the perpetrators of genocide and those complicit with them accountable.”
https://baice.ac.uk/hub/what-does-ethical-solidarity-look-like-for-academic-professional-bodies-in-times-of-unfolding-genocide/
Great paper unravels the interlocking systems of oppression inbuilt to AI's colonial racial heteronormative capitalist logics
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231219241?s=09
Surveillance capitalism enables fraud.
Data privacy reduces crime.
New research supports #DigitalRights
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/does-less-consumer-tracking-lead-less-fraud?s=09
The UK Data Protection and Digital Information bill contains powers that will gut privacy rights and enable the govt. to snoop on the bank accounts and financial assets of anyone who claims ANY benefit.
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data?s=09
Meta and Sama fired content moderators for protesting working conditions and demanding the right to unionize. #DigitalRights
https://restofworld.org/2023/kenya-content-moderators-battle-meta/?s=09
Nigeria spent $2.7billion on digital surveillance technologies. #DigitalRights
https://technext24.com/2023/09/28/nigeria-surveillance-equipment-spending/
I am running a session at Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa 2023 (#FIFAfrica23) with authors of @adrn's book on Digital Citizenship in Africa. Please check out our session if you're attending the event! #FIFAfrica23 #InternetFreedomAfrica #DigitalRights - via #Whova event app
Our new report out today documents which companies, from which countries, are supplying which rights-violating surveillance technologies to 5 African governments. https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/18120
Data protection laws are often weaponised to stifle free speech, expand state surveillance, and impose more forms of digital authoritarianism. Report from SEAsia by Engage Media #DigitalRights #DigitalSurveillance #DigitalAuthoritarianism
https://engagemedia.org/2023/gif-report-ict-policies-digital-rights/?s=09
Join us later today for the online launch of this exciting new book that brings together positive examples from across the continent of citizens using digital tools and online spaces to actively engage in civic and political life. #digitalRights @BloomsburyPol @IDS_UK
There are lots of foreign military bases in the Africa countries experiencing coups. Obviously just a coincidence.
There are lots of foreign military bases in the Africa counties experiencing coups. Obviously just a coincidence.
